Telecel Zimbabwe could have been awarded for its tenacity and managing to retain customer confidence and maintaining its market share after such heavy storms, alas this is not a game but real life and real business where only the fittest survive.

Telecel Zimbabwe lived to fight another day with both the management and employees heavily resisting the order assuring the nation they will fight all the way through using any if not all means possible! After that the rest is history!

Ironically, by or before the same time next month, the minister will have to announce again that they have made the payment that closes the Telecel deal and allow the company to fully function and get it up and running again to full potential.

In an interview with one of Telecel Zimbabwe Executive,

the source said we are not doing much but wait and see, the battle between Vimplecom which was the main shareholder, and government had soured to mad heights last year, causing Vimplecom to assign ZTE to strip some network services, that war seems pretty much suspended and we now wait to see if the deal concludes or not”

Telecel Zimbabwe is currently operating on a minimal scale as they wait to see what happens next, Vimplecom last year had told them to freeze any long term projects and mot huge budgets are directly controlled or approved.

As it stands, the Telecel Zimbabwe management reports to two bosses, The government and Vimplecom simply because Vimplecom still controls operations and is skeptical Zarnet will honor the payment and may want to seize back stake in case the deal goes sour.This naturally causes stagnation and massive anxiety as the future becomes cloudy for everyone involved, worse off for junior employees who are reportedly leaving the company the next minute they find an opportunity. Most employees are not sure what the future holds and are willing to quickly jump ship, save the national employment crisis.

For Vimplecom,it is alleged they started offloading anything disposable early last year in August, with a number of cars being sold, while in the background they were discussing an imminent sale with government. The company was no longer confident of continuing operations amid licence cancellation threats and indigenous compliance issues.

Management has to do nothing but wait! Yes keep waiting till the minister returns to work, next February, this is the same month we will know what the future has for Telecel Zimbabwe deal and executives as well.

The minister has a tough task, the availability of funds to conclude the deal is key before everything. Only $10 million was reported paid so far and Vimplecom is also waiting.